New Version of Mokopuna Island Project Documentation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axsv5Y_G6rU

Mokopuna Island Booklet

1st Sailing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez3Tpp-UFRU&feature=youtu.be

2.30 Sailing, view from the Ferry

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VPYj30SW4E

Video of the 2.30 sailing.

Best to watch on this link.

http://youtu.be/wpMRplk4OqM

Working to get some video of the day up now.

First review of the Mokopuna Island Project !!!

https://kjsgeo.wordpress.com/2015/03/18/mokopuna-place-in-isolation/

Arie Hellendoorn with the cardboard roll megaphone.

Looking back to Wellington, and Mokopuna Island Beach. We were hiding in the bushes.

At the entrance to Kim Lee's cave on Mokopuna Island at top, and a view looking back out.

Everything went really well today, all the volunteers did great, so big thanks to Clyde, Susannah, Dan and Louise, and all the other contributors. Big thanks to the "laughing guy" Arie, who's in for a sore throat tomorrow. Pictures tomorrow. 

All sailings confirmed and will proceed as scheduled.

Seats still available on the 12.00 sailing!

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1502/S00478/history-revisited-on-wellingtons-mokopuna-island.htm

http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/news/columns/mark-amery-visual-arts/2015/mar/161338-finding-common-ground

Wow! The three free sailings are almost fully booked. You can ring and go on a waiting list or take the 12.00 sailing which you need to pay for. 

Great morning spent on Mokopuna Island doing testing with the DOC ranger

Brighter Future.  A response to Prime Minister John Keys 2011 election promise of a brighter future. But as we look forward we seem to be slipping backwards. Best viewed on link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O4-MJnBZPY

Can't give away too much about the work sorry, you'll just have to be outside on the top deck of the boat to experience it!

This artwork will take place on Wellington Harbour on Saturday the 14th March. If that day is unsuitable due to inclement weather the work will take place the following day, or failing that Sunday the 22nd March. Please consult the East by West ferries website the Thursday before for an update.

This work will appeal to an audience that is interested in contemporary art, social change, local history, and human rights. I very much hope that people who have been affected by the things I have outlined below will come and view the work, which is why three cruises that day will be free of charge. 

We now live in a time where deregularisation, restructuring and the free market has isolated and alienated individuals in different ways, for example “on-call work is associated with poor sleeping patterns, mental health issues and disrupted personal lives”, and research on the casualization of the workforce that has been found to be “similar to evidence on the social and health impact of poorly paid and insecure work that was found in government inquiries into sweating, factories, casual dock labour and the like more than a century ago” Women, the young and the old, Maori and Pacific Islanders are more likely to be affected by the casualization of the workplace. “The growth of contingent work has been linked to an overall increase in socioeconomic inequality. “Contingent workers constitute a significant proportion of the expanding category of ‘working poor’ identified in Europe and North America” Inequality, as the run up to the 2014 New Zealand general election showed, is increasingly becoming part of the New Zealand consciousness.

This work posits the idea of a community of the vulnerable, and as such cuts across what a “traditional” community has previously been seen to be, such as race, religion, etc.I would like any debate about this work to be around how society has been changed since the 1980’s. Has the free market and restructuring made it harder or easier for the majority of New Zealanders to flourish in this country. Has management culture and monetarism been beneficial for New Zealand or has it gone too far?